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You are here: Home / Language / Where Did the Name Pansy O’Hara From the Book Gone With The Wind Come From?

Where Did the Name Pansy O’Hara From the Book Gone With The Wind Come From?

February 6, 2020 by Karen Hill

Margaret Mitchell was a first-time writer when in 1936 she submitted a manuscript of Civil War stories told to her by her grandfather.

The title of the manuscript was “Tomorrow Is Another Day”, featuring a Southern belle character named Pansy O’Hara.

The publisher convinced her to change the book’s name to Gone With The Wind.

The title of the book was taken from a line from a nineteenth-century poem by Ernest Dowson, and, after a bitter argument, “Pansy” was changed to “Scarlett.”

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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